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Training for Parent Leaders
- Do you want to inform parents about their rights under
Special Education Laws?
- Do you want to help parents participate effectively in
their child's IEP meeting and other Special Education meetings?
- Do you want to teach parents how to become effective
advocates?
- Do you want to provide Special Education rights training
for your own parent/community group as a volunteer trainer?
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The FRCD Parent to Parent Training
program will provide advanced-level training in...
Advocacy and negotiation
One to one assistance
Outreach and publicity
Training and communication
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Parent to Parent Training Workshops
Dates: Wednesday,
May 17, 2000 and Wednesday, May 24, 2000
Time:
9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Place:
Family Resource Center on Disabilities.
Fee:
$10.00 - Includes lunch both days.
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Participants who complete the training
will receive free:
- Special Education manual, which include state
and federal special education laws
- How to Organize an Effective Parent Group and Move
Bureaucracies
- How to Get Services by Being Assertive (both published
by FRCD)
- Other valuable materials.
To participate in this workshop,
you should have a basic knowledge of Special
Education and be willing to be a
volunteer trainer for at least one Special Education
Rights training seminar for other
parents in your community or at FRCD.
Click here for a mail
in form to attend this work shop.
Family Resource Center on Disabilities
(formerly Coordinating Council for Handicapped Children) 20
East Jackson Blvd., Room 300 * Chicago, Illinois 60064 312/939-3513
(voice)----800/952-4199 (Illinois only, Outside Chicago Area)----312/939-3519
(TDD)
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